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III - Schrödinger’s Cat
As a good detective, Wolfcrown was never able to take anything for granted before proving it empirically, using his natural and biological senses to gather evidence of what he sought to establish. Direct observation. Whenever he needed to deal with the uncertainty of probabilities, he turned to Schrödinger's Cat experiment, which represents the perfect concept of a paradox, as in this mental exercise, one imagines a cat inside a closed box where there is a fifty percent probability of a mechanism activating and poisoning the feline, or a fifty percent probability of nothing really happening. Since it is impossible to know what is going on inside a closed box, the only conclusion to draw is that the cat is both alive and dead until the box is opened and what happened inside is really observed.
In decades of his career, Wolfcrown had come across countless boxes like Schrödinger's and had learned from experience that he would not be able to open them all. Precisely because of this, he was skeptical of his foundation but cultivated in his heart the dose of optimism that was necessary to motivate him in his search for the solution to the case that would come next, the next box to be opened. No matter how many boxes he crossed in his life, he always hoped to find the best inside them. The phrase he always kept was "Hope for the best, prepare for the worst." The problem was that the box he was trying to open at that moment was not even a box. The rumors and conspiracies on the deep web about who Satoshi Nakamoto was were countless. Some said that this was the pseudonym of a group of people who published the bitcoin whitepaper, others that he had already died and taken with him the wallet with the largest sum of bitcoins in the world, and others that he was actually a great genius who devised his plans in the basement of a house full of monitors, not because of his intellectual versatility in creating a new type of economy, but because he remained anonymous in the creation of one of humanity's most disruptive inventions.
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The advent of a decentralized economy would create a precedent never seen in the history of civilization, the deep digitization of what was understood as fiduciary currency, which would not represent just another option to use, but rather the first option of a currency that would be solely and exclusively the property of its owner. The invention of the nuclear bomb or the invention of printing presses by Gutenberg could be compared in magnitude with what Satoshi had created, for on the one hand, we have a fatal and destructive weapon that, through global consensus, had its use prohibited, becoming an argument of threat by megalomaniac leaders around the world, on the other hand, we have the invention that industrialized human communication, accelerating immeasurably the speed at which information was produced and distributed, and right there on the side, newly arrived in history, the invention that would represent true freedom and autonomy of people before a system that monitored every detail of daily life and did not like being questioned or losing control.
Opening that box might be Wolfcrown's last act of redemption before a material life that he judged to have many more errors than successes.